Improvement in railroad-rail joints



H. n. LEISHMAN.-

RAILROAD MIL-JOINT.v No.173,225. emma Feb.s',1 87e.

UNITEEy STATEs PATENT OEFICE.

HENRY D. LEISHMAN, OF YATES CITY, ILLINOIS.

A IMPRovEMENT IN RAiLpRoAD-RAIL .mm1-s.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 173,225, dated February 8, 1876 application filed January 15, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: y

Be it known that I, HENRY D. LEISHMAN, ot' Yates City, in the county of Knox and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Rail-Joint, of` Which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a` clasp of two separate plates, wholly inclosin g, or nearly so, the rail ends to be jointed and fastened together and to the rails, by bolts going through the Web of the rails, and by projecting Hanges on the outside bolted together, thus making a substantial joint-clasp which can be applied to the rails, and removed without disturbing them after they have been placed in position, which cannot be done with the clasps made in one piece, to slide on the ends of the rails.

Figure l is a transverse section of a railjoint made with my improved clasp, the -section being taken on line x w ot' Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is an end view, of one of the rails prepared for the clasp.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre-- spending parts. y

A and B represent thetWo plates composing the clasp, vthe same being separate andindependent plates, suitably bent to tit the sides of the rail and meet together, or nearly so, under the tread, and the inside one being constructed to extend over the top of the rail and along an outwardly-projecting Bange, C. 0f the outside plate, to be fastened to 'said outside plate by bolts D. At the middle of the. Web the plates are bolted through the rail, in the same manner as fish-plates, thus clasping and rmly securing the joint.

The ends of the rail-heads are reduced iny Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The improved rail-joint clasp, consisting of the two separate plates A B, itted to the base and sides ofthe rail, and one ot' Which ex tends over the top and along an outer projection of the other, and isbolted thereto, kWhile both plates 'are bolted through the Webs of the rails, substantially as speoiied.

Y HENRY D. LEISHMAN.

Witnesses:

JAMES SPEER, CHARLES L. ROBERTS. 

